MandarinI hear the stutter coming from my voice As I trouble to find the word in Mandarin Embarassed and ashamed, I switch back To English, my native mother tongue They say: what does it mean, to gain the world but lose your soul?? As the policy makers didn’t know, when they enacted it in 1965, that English would be the sole- language we would speak. That day, I browsed around at a Chinese bookstore Looking for a book to improve my Mandarin Feeling lost in a world, supposedly familiar But, ye...

MandarinI hear the stutter coming from my voice As I trouble to find the word in Mandarin Embarassed and ashamed, I switch back To English, my native mother tongue They say: what does it mean, to gain the world but lose your soul?? As the policy makers didn’t know, when they enacted it in 1965, that English would be the sole- language we would speak. That day, I browsed around at a Chinese bookstore Looking for a book to improve my Mandarin Feeling lost in a world, supposedly familiar But, ye...